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income, indicating the size of survival gains from redistribution in favour of households below the poverty line. The poverty … elasticity declines over time after 1981. It is invariant to controlling for income inequality but diminished upon controlling …
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after the introduction of sulfa experienced increases in schooling, income, and the probability of employment, and …
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This paper concerns the problem of inferring the effects of covariates on intergenerational income mobility, i.e. on … of mobility- (i) traditional transition probability of movement across income quantiles over generations and (ii) a new …
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The Nigerian civil war of 1967-70 was precipitated by secession of the Igbo-dominated south-eastern region to create the state of Biafra. It was the first civil war in Africa, the predecessor of many. We investigate the legacies of this war four decades later. Using variation across ethnicity...
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after the introduction of sulfa experienced increases in schooling, income, and the probability of employment, and … ; income ; disability ; mortality trends …
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"Solon's (1992) landmark study estimated the intergenerational elasticity (IGE) in income between fathers and sons to …
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Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
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